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For this lesson we are trying to connect the five patterns of the E minor pentatonic scale with the seven patterns of the E minor scale. This is a useful way to improve your knowledge of the fretboard as well as giving you a ton of new options for playing melodies and soloing in a minor key. In this example we are doing all of these in the key of E minor. Take me there...

One of the biggest hurdles many jazz guitarists face early in their development is being able to connect chords, scales and arpeggios in their playing without having to jump all over the fretboard between shapes. Take me there...

This pentatonic exercise will help you explore some different ways to use the pentatonic scale over Cm7, C7, and Cmaj7. The idea here is to have some new uses for this very common scale. For the exercise we are moving one four measure lick around using the different scale types.

There are many benefits to applying the pentatonic scale to different chord, the most important one being that you can get all these different and awesome sounds but still being able to use the same scale. Take me there...

A target tone, as its name implies, is a melodic destination point that harmonically coincides with a particular chord. These are the notes you’ll cadence your phrases on. Players that are new to soloing, regardless of the style, have a tendency to play more notes than needed. I believe this is due to the fact that new players often don’t know the notes they are playing, or how they relate to the chords they’re playing over. In this exercise we will practice how to land phrases on the root note using C minor pentatonic scales in each position of the scale.

There is a series of notes that are being worked around each C note in each position here. Learn each set of licks with the videos and tablature, and then use the backing tracks to practice your own soloing ideas. One thing that we guitar players tend to do is play too many notes in just the root pattern on the pentatonic scale. This is an awesome way to help you break out of just playing in that one pattern, as well as to help you get a better understanding of where the root notes fall in all the other patterns as well. Take me there...

As with all great guitarists, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm playing was as strong as his leads. Stevie Ray Vaughan excelled at a style of shuffle playing that has its roots in earlier players, yet he was able to turn it into a personal trademark.

This riff is based off of a twelve bar blues in G. The chords being outlined are G7, C7, and D7, with a hard shuffle feel. Some of the other techniques being used are hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, and position shifts. When you listen to a rhythm section playing a medium shuffle, it’s quite common to hear the bass playing a walking line (moving quarter notes) while the guitar strums chords on the upbeats. Take me there...

Arpeggios are everywhere. They’re requisite for nailing the changes in jazz standards, shredding your way through your favorite instrumental rock track or busting out some burning modern blues, as well as a myriad of other musical scenarios. Take me there...

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PRACTICETHEGUITAR.COM helps guitar players of all levels improve their guitar playing by improving the way they practice the guitar. What you get here is something that you cannot get anywhere else: comprehensive guitar exercises that show you how to practice the guitar. Each of our exercise videos includes a lesson video that teaches you the exercise, practice videos at 15 tempos, full notation, and tablature. Once you learn the exercise, you use the practice videos to practice with, starting on a slow tempo and gradually increasing the tempo with the next video. Our videos show you how to properly play each exercise and explain how it will benefit your playing.

Many of our exercises also include professionally recorded backing tracks at multiple tempos. When you are ready to play to a track by yourself, pick a track, select a tempo and jam!

If you have any questions at any time, feel free to send us an email to info@practicetheguitar.com

We use web video to deliver these exercises in a fun, self paced format. Browse around and you’ll find tons of free video exercises. To see examples of our videos, you can visit the FREE Stuff tab on the menu. You can also go to the Members pages where we give you FREE access to one tempo of every exercise. Once you see what’s here, we know you’ll want to join our site.

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